By this time in their career they should be playing major venues like
Metallica (from Mars).
It seems like someone doesn't want them to be more popular.
Perhaps the members of DreamTheater are all deputized or commissioned
FBI agents, or NSA.
That's the best way to use someone, gift them to make them feel
greater than they are by giving them a gift they never thought or
imagined they'd have, making them powerful by affiliation. It's really
a trap, encagement.
DT are used by RUSH as the movie portrayed.
Playing the biggest venues perhaps isn't important to them.
I will be arranging the wedding for you and I soon. Next summer?